Keller draws another complaint

The Texas Civil Rights Project today filed a complaint against her with the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, asking that she be sanctioned for not properly filing personal financial disclosure statements with the Texas Ethics Commission.

The ethics commission last week slapped Keller with a record $100,000 fine. She says she plans to appeal.

“Judge Keller’s egregious material omissions from her personal financial statements bring the integrity of the Texas judiciary and of her court into disrepute and was a source of scandal to the citizens of the state,” said Civil Rights Project Director Jim Harrington.

Keller already has gone through the conduct commission grider over complaints that she shut off a death row inmate’s appeals just hours before his execution in 2007. A special master in the case ruled that she did nothing illegal, but commission prosecutors are appealing that decision.

Harrington’s complaint probably at worst would result in a public reprimand for Keller, but her opponents would use it as additional ammunition to drive her from office when she stands for re-election in 2012.